shook hard and loud ! we felt down here on Milpas. set off a few car alarms at Milpas Motors

COMMENT 355898P

2012-12-20 09:49 AM

Yes, there was an earthquake felt in Carpinteria and we are having aftershocks now. It is also being reported by many in the area on Facebook.

COMMENT 355899

2012-12-20 09:49 AM

Felt the same thing in the 7100 block of Hollister twice. Windows rattled, but didn't seem like the building was moving.

COMMENT 355900

2012-12-20 09:50 AM

same here in Ellwood. Heard some sort of jet after the 3rd pressure wave (not very loud, so likely high atmosphere flight)

COMMENT 355901P

2012-12-20 09:50 AM

Felt it on APS too.

COMMENT 355902

2012-12-20 09:50 AM

Yeah, I heard it here in Bel Air Knolls. I would also like to know what it was.

COMMENT 355903

2012-12-20 09:50 AM

Yes, I just posted the same and felt/heard another but less strong rumble @ 9:45...near Bishop Diego High School

COMMENT 355904

2012-12-20 09:51 AM

Mayan god awakening for the party tomorrow!

COMMENT 355905

2012-12-20 09:51 AM

We had the same here on the mesa-windows and doors rattling quite intense. Any ideas of what happened?

COMMENT 355906

2012-12-20 09:51 AM

HAARP. This is just the beginning. Not surprising they are using it as the weather has been so cold. My uncle is retired Air Force and he states the weather control achievable with its use is truly scary\mind blowing.

COMMENT 355907

2012-12-20 09:51 AM

Heard it and felt it over by La Cumbre Plaza too. Could it have been caused be a sonic boom from a plane going to/from Vandenberg?

COMMENT 355908P

2012-12-20 09:52 AM

I felt them in Lompoc and my brother in Buellton just called me to say it rattled his patio door for ten seconds.

COMMENT 355909

2012-12-20 09:52 AM

I felt them too, but it's not showing up on the USGS map. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

SHOREBIRD

2012-12-20 09:52 AM

Felt it too. Calle real/turnpike.

COMMENT 355911

2012-12-20 09:52 AM

NOT earthquake. Hanging items do not swing. These are skyquakes. Most likely caused by hypersonic military craft. Had a lot of them when we were pummelling Iraq. Hope they are only training missions....

COMMENT 355912P

2012-12-20 09:54 AM

Definitely felt it near Goleta Cottage. Mostly a few hard shakes, hard to tell if it's a pressure wave or ground shaking when you're in a mobile home... There was a 2.6 in Cherry Valley about that time, but it seems highly unlikely so many would feel something so small from so far away.

HOOSIER NOT

2012-12-20 09:55 AM

same here by Guttierez and Olive.... thought earthquakes lasted longer than that though...what do I know, I'm from Indiana!

COMMENT 355914

2012-12-20 09:55 AM

Felt it strong on the Mesa also.... not shaking like an earthquake but loud! Sounded like someone dropped something on our roof.

COMMENT 355915

2012-12-20 09:56 AM

I heard my windows rattling in different locations a few times. Friends are reporting feeling it in Lompoc, though I didn't feel a thing in Goleta!

COMMENT 355916

2012-12-20 09:57 AM

I sure wish the military would give us a heads up that they were going to be rocking us....again....and again....and again...

COMMENT 355917

2012-12-20 09:57 AM

There was finally one showing up on the earthquake map for that time in Cherry Valley - a 2.6 magnitude. They used to show up on the USGS map immediately, but this one took a long time to show up on the map... not sure if that was what we felt, but we definitely had some shaking. (911 - why do you say hanging items don't swing? There are many types of earthquakes rolling, shaking... and hanging things can swing from them).

COMMENT 355918

2012-12-20 09:58 AM

Felt it here in Mission Canyon. Windows rattled and felt it through the floor. But nothing about it on the USGS earthquake site.

COMMENT 355919

2012-12-20 10:01 AM

Windows rattled for 20 secs here in Santa Ynez. My wife assumed earthquake, but seemed more like a pressure wave to me. The little quake in Cherry Valley was too small, and a few minutes earlier... One more smaller after event?!

COMMENT 355920

2012-12-20 10:02 AM

We felt it! We are next door to Cottage Hospital in SB! My daughter was in her room playing, and she ran to me when she heard/felt it, too! She said her bed shook, and the rattling door freaked her out. She said the door moved all by itself. She wasn't touching it! haha...I was sitting on here, EdHatting, when my windows and doors shook loudly. Even my kitty freaked out, and puffed up. Oh, the sight of his fur! Poor little guy!

Just happened again at 10:04 a.m., this time not as loud. Now again 10:07, lasting longer this time. The first one made my whole house here in Goleta creak loudly, then 8 to 12 muffled booms trailing off.

COMMENT 355933

2012-12-20 10:09 AM

Happening again on top of 154, this is the 5th episode what is it?

COMMENT 355934

2012-12-20 10:09 AM

Sonic boom - not an earthquake.

Seems like we've been getting a lot these lately. I wonder what they are testing up at Vandenberg?

Just had another series... boom, boom, boooooooommmm

COMMENT 355935

2012-12-20 10:09 AM

Still happening downtown. Less intense than the earlier one.

SHOREBIRD

2012-12-20 10:09 AM

This time it felt like a pressure wave in my ears. Cat is looking at me like I caused it.

COMMENT 355937

2012-12-20 10:09 AM

It's an alien invasion!!!

Or an earthquake. Probably just an earthquake...but that's what they'd want you to think so it's probably aliens.

It must be a sonic boom. Nothing is swaying in the house, just rattling windows. Not an earthquake. Maybe it's just those pesky end-of-the-world asteroids entering the atmosphere.

COMMENT 355943

2012-12-20 10:11 AM

So strange -- I am feeling it more in my ears than anywhere else -- like pressure popping. First and most noticeable around 9:30 and just a few minutes ago a series again -- twice. What IS it?

COMMENT 355945

2012-12-20 10:11 AM

Original Poster here. Have heard about 4 of these things now. One around 10:08am, 2 minutes ago. Nothing swinging, nothing on the USGS earthquake page, but stared at the window and saw it VIBRATE. This is FREAKY.

COMMENT 355946

2012-12-20 10:12 AM

Military jets maneuvering far offshore can briefly break the sound barrier with wingtips and tails when doing tight turns. The sound can carry a long ways under the right atmospheric conditions. @904, detailed analysis of cultural artifacts and figures show that all Mayan aircraft were very subsonic.

COMMENT 355947

2012-12-20 10:12 AM

my poor kitty. all alone at home in gtown!

COMMENT 355948P

2012-12-20 10:12 AM

More rumbles, 2 sets of aftershocks. Hope we are not building up to something major

COMMENT 355949

2012-12-20 10:13 AM

We just felt another at 10:08- our dogs and cats were whining like crazy and pawing at the door. We didn't feel it in the floor, but all the windows were rattling very loudly. Strange!

COMMENT 355950P

2012-12-20 10:13 AM

Heard/felt it up here in Solvang too. The second time I went outside and saw what looked like a rocket trail in the south eastern sky. Could have been a coincidence...

COMMENT 355952

2012-12-20 10:14 AM

First one felt like an explosion here out on Turnpike, counting 4 incidents at this point. Would appreciate a heads up if the military is going to be doing training exercises over our heads.

COMMENT 355953P

2012-12-20 10:14 AM

945, USGS IS showing the earthquake. Check again

COMMENT 355954

2012-12-20 10:14 AM

Saw a supersonic aircraft flying over just as the last set of boom booms rattled Mission Canyon. Holiday war games, I'd guess!

COMMENT 355955

2012-12-20 10:15 AM

Seems like there have been two events in Montecito, one around 9:30 and the other around 10 or so. Windows rattling and what sounded like a large truck rolling down the road.

COMMENT 355956

2012-12-20 10:15 AM

@355938P HAARP is powerful enough to reach the Santa Barbara area and beyond as proven by the huge quake in Haiti some years back. It is likely that it is being used or being tested in coordination with Vberg and the source of these "booms."

SBSURFERLIFE

2012-12-20 10:16 AM

I'm working remotely a few hours north of SLO and I haven't felt anything here. It must be something at Vandenberg AFB.

COMMENT 355958P

2012-12-20 10:17 AM

The end is near...

COMMENT 355959

2012-12-20 10:18 AM

Noozhawk just posted an article:http://www.noozhawk.com/article/small_earthquake_rattles_windows_in_santa_barbara_county/

COMMENT 355960

2012-12-20 10:19 AM

I doubt this is the small earthquake in the Cherry Valley area that is showing up on the map.

COMMENT 355961

2012-12-20 10:20 AM

Was not an earthquake...nothing on the usgs site was close enough or strong enough to be that effective on our area. Just looked at the Vandenberg launch site and there were no scheduled launches for today.

ROGER DODGER

2012-12-20 10:22 AM

Nothing on USGS..? I didn't feel nothing..?

COMMENT 355963P

2012-12-20 10:22 AM

For those that don't seem to want to believe we are feeling the earthquake and aftershocks, check out the USGS page, http://on.doi.gov/12CwPDm

My boyfriend felt it in Camarillo, but I agree. I definitely don't think it is an earthquake. It seems to be more characteristic of a sonic boom.

COMMENT 355976

2012-12-20 10:28 AM

I have a hard time believing that what people felt was a 2.6 earthquake, 11 miles deep, almost 200 miles away. It seems unlikely.

COMMENT 355977

2012-12-20 10:29 AM

Surprised no one knows that it's Pt. Mugu/San Nicolas Island ordnance testing. (Not an earthquake or HAARP.) Pretty common occurrence:

"The San Nicolas Island Vandal Launch Pad launch complex is capable of supporting missile (Tomahawk & RAM) and missile targets (Vandal) launches. The west end of San Nicolas Island provides a secured area for missile targets and is often used for SLAM and land attach missile operations. The Self Defense Test Ship (SDTS) is a remote controlled ship with SeaSparrow, RAM, and CWIS defense systems and various target acquisition systems. It provides an open-ocean, integrated, self-defense platform without the safety constraints associated with a manned ship. "

COMMENT 355978

2012-12-20 10:29 AM

Last time we had something similar it was an F22...back in January....

I am not allowed to post a link.....but if you google sonic boom santa barbara, there is a KSBY story that pops up.

ROGER DODGER

2012-12-20 10:35 AM

I saw that 2.6 but it was so far away oh well I guess this is it....

COMMENT 355984P

2012-12-20 10:35 AM

Come on you guys...there is NO WAY you felt a 2.6 earthquake that far away. The USGS shakemap doesn't go any further north than Long Beach for a reason!!!!

COMMENT 355985P

2012-12-20 10:36 AM

Headline from the KSBY website:

USGS tells KSBY News "sonic signals" shook the Central Coast

COMMENT 355986

2012-12-20 10:38 AM

I'm beginning to think the Mayan's were smarter than we've been giving them credit for; the "occurrences" just might increase until the earth explodes tomorrow!

COMMENT 355987P

2012-12-20 10:38 AM

355956 - "Proven" by a quake in Haiti? Huh? How do radiowaves aimed at the ionosphere cause quakes?

COMMENT 355988P

2012-12-20 10:39 AM

Scanner Report:

Dispatch:

9 44 AM : "We are receiving numerous alarm calls in the area"

9 45 AM: "…are we responding to those due to the circumstances?"

Response of PD: "Negative"

The call they were discussing was for a person "Hearing noises on her roof"

No other mention related to noises/shaking was heard.

Seems dispatch knows something and is being quiet about it.

COMMENT 355989

2012-12-20 10:40 AM

These were the sounds of blasting. My guess is it was the rock quarry near Cachuma Dam called B Rock, operated by Granite Construction.

COMMENT 355990

2012-12-20 10:40 AM

Maybe the reindeer got out a bit early!

COMMENT 355991P

2012-12-20 10:40 AM

984, did you not go to the USGS page I posted and click on the link for "responses"?

COMMENT 355992P

2012-12-20 10:40 AM

I heard/felt it it at Los Positas and State St.

And again then again at 10 06 and then 10 08 AM

ROGER DODGER

2012-12-20 10:43 AM

The Earth is swallowing Santa Barbara film at 11...

COMMENT 355994

2012-12-20 10:43 AM

No way that 2.6 in cherry valley would be felt here. And a 2.6 centered in SB wouldn't be felt in Solvang either. Felt very similar to the subsurface explosions used for seismic surveys on which I used to work. Would likely feel similar to pressure waves originating from high in atmosphere, and that would explain the reports coming from a large area.

COMMENT 355995

2012-12-20 10:47 AM

Don't forget they like to bombSan nicolas island at this time ofThe day...

they shoot the missles overThe cuyama corridor...

Google: cryptome china lake

for allYou need to know as a civilian.

Oh yeah remember tooParty like its 2012!

COMMENT 355997P

2012-12-20 10:50 AM

San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office received several reports of what appeared to be seismic activity in the county. The Sheriff's Office has confirmed through various state and federal agencies that there has been no seismic activity in our area. It's believed the activity was caused by sonic booms from military aircraft flying over this region of California. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) confirms there was a sonic boom reported at 9:26 AM and again at 9:40 AM.

994, I guess you did not go to the USGS and see all of the responses from the Santa Barbara area that started when the earthquake took place. This is why they are listed on that specific earthquake page. I guess it is true what Jonathan Swift wrote: "There is none so blind as they that won’t see."

COMMENT 356006

2012-12-20 10:54 AM

Definately a sonic boom or similar and not an earthquake. Come on people, use your senses! Did the windows and exterior doors shake violently, or the whole room? In my office, the exterior windows shook, but my coffee didn't jiggle and the interior glass walls in my office didn't move. Critical thinking is in short supply these days. Sorry to see that Noozhawk posted their 'solution' before actually thinking.

SHAKEY

2012-12-20 10:59 AM

Hi Shakey here , just wanted to say I didn't feel anything out of the norm.... ha ha. People falling over on Milpas is the norm...

COMMENT 356008

2012-12-20 11:00 AM

NOT an Earthquake, CONFIRMED. It is physically impossible for a small 2.6 earthquake centered in Cherry Valley to be felt in the SB area, confirmed.

(For those of you who think the government should warn you whenever something exceeds the sound limit, causing sonic booms... Really? What planet do you live on? One where beneficent gods see to your every whim and money grows on trees?)

COMMENT 356010

2012-12-20 11:02 AM

006, not every earthquake shakes. 2004 wasn't even that long ago. Use your head.

COMMENT 356012

2012-12-20 11:07 AM

2.6 earthquake BALONEY!CA native here: most people wont even feel an earthquake that small, let alone from 200 miles away. it's amazing how stupid the govt thinks we are.

COMMENT 356014

2012-12-20 11:13 AM

Probably just Tony Stark testing out his new suit.

COMMENT 356016

2012-12-20 11:14 AM

No yelling. Thank you.

COMMENT 356020

2012-12-20 11:20 AM

Why are we still arguing over whether it was an earthquake or not? Totally wasn't an earthquake, folks ... Unless you're commenting from Riverside ...

MCMAC

2012-12-20 11:29 AM

What we felt in Santa Ynez was exactly what it feels like to be on a quake epicenter. Just a big sharp jolt. We did hear rumblings several times afterwards though, which made us suspect military jets or?

COMMENT 356023

2012-12-20 11:29 AM

945 - you are not the OP - I am. Nothing "freaky" just looking for the source of pressure waves, obviously NOT an earthquake...

COMMENT 356024

2012-12-20 11:31 AM

Heard them around 10:05 this morning near Goleta Valley Junior High School. Booms, no shaking.

COMMENT 356028

2012-12-20 11:37 AM

We have heard/felt these over the years and yet the Emergency Management people...County, City, or whomever, never have any information...don't you feel safe now?

COMMENT 356029P

2012-12-20 11:39 AM

By how rattled we are--pun intended--it's clear the government can really agitate the population. I wish they would at least give people a heads up to not be afraid. Without info, we fill in the blanks. Or fight trying.

SHAKEY

2012-12-20 11:41 AM

This is really funny, can't wait to see what it's like tomorrow !! Any little bump, boom, creeky noise from your house, is that a comtrail or the streak from a meteorite ? Don't worry, be happy, day by day

ROGER DODGER

2012-12-20 11:49 AM

All right Hoosiers on Edhat! Were going down tomorrow the Oreo Cookie says so..

COMMENT 356038

2012-12-20 12:10 PM

KSBY:

"David Oppenheimer with the U.S. Geological Survey told KSBY News the shaking and boom seems to have been caused by a "sonic signal not an earthquake." He continued to say that the object is most likely an aircraft heading north and that preliminary reports show it reaching 2,000-plus miles per hour."

There's not a lot out there that goes that fast.

COMMENT 356041

2012-12-20 12:24 PM

Repent. Tomorrow at 5:00 am, (PST) throughout the entire planet, they will reveal themselves to us. At that time, you may choose your path. All will be revealed, and those who doubt now of the "Arrival" will be made whole. Higher consciousness is just hours away.

I just tell people that the callendar ends because the guy carving it smacked his thumb for the last time and said, forget it, I'm out of here, I gave you a couple thousand years, I've had it !!!

COMMENT 356047

2012-12-20 12:50 PM

KEYT says it was F-22s out of Edwards conducting testing over our area.

SHAKEY

2012-12-20 12:56 PM

NASA has confirmed that late tomorrow afternoon the sky will turn BLACK, a phenomenon known as night....

SHAKEY

2012-12-20 01:00 PM

F-22's , and I messed it !! Oh man those are so cool !!

COMMENT 356051

2012-12-20 01:01 PM

what kind of testing?

COMMENT 356053

2012-12-20 01:07 PM

Here in San Roque we did not experience this "sound" or quake.

COMMENT 356056

2012-12-20 01:14 PM

Clearly the F-22 Raptor and its ensuing "skyquakes" were caused by it vainly attempting to intercept alien invaders who themselves received a popup notification from their Outlook 3000 calendar software reminding them to return and destroy us all.

COMMENT 356073

2012-12-20 01:42 PM

SHAKEY for the win

COMMENT 356081

2012-12-20 01:59 PM

My observations show that this event took place for over a half an hour...sonic boom? I don't think so unless the craft was making circles or loops over SB. How about the underwater low frequency stuff that the Navy does off shore, you know, to harass and kill whales?

COMMENT 356082

2012-12-20 02:08 PM

I felt it my room walls and windows were shaking I was on the second story of my house and ran downstairs I felt the after shots of the earthquake in ventura California it was the jets and earthquake I know that because its in the ventura star newspaper and my mom called me and told me...

COMMENT 356083

2012-12-20 02:12 PM

There is supposed to be a blackout tomrow here in ventura or on the 23rd

COMMENT 356084P

2012-12-20 02:20 PM

Bad timing by the government with this as we do have a higher than average amount of people locally who probably think the world will end tomorrow.

COMMENT 356085

2012-12-20 02:22 PM

Felt this in Carpinteria, too.

COMMENT 356091

2012-12-20 02:31 PM

081 - underwater low freq would not cause booms like that.

If they were flying around the missile test range, they could've been doing multiple firing passes on San Nic.

But, if you want to not believe the official statement, that's ok too.

The earthquake was a 2.6 and in Riverside county, none of us around here felt that. Heck people in SB didn't even feel the one in Solvang a few weeks ago.

COMMENT 356101

2012-12-20 03:01 PM

But 5am here on 12/21/12 will be 2am on 12/22/12 for New Zealand..

COMMENT 356108

2012-12-20 03:16 PM

The SBSO released a statement - not an earthquake. Sonic booms caused by military aircraft flying in the area.

COMMENT 356112P

2012-12-20 03:29 PM

@HASINT ... Huh?

COMMENT 356113

2012-12-20 03:29 PM

F-22 Raptor hitting mach 1 50 miles off VAFB. A little research does wonders......

COMMENT 356146

2012-12-20 04:38 PM

911 here, as I said hypersonic craft. We never know what the current state of weapons are, but I suspect this is "Aurora" craft. Very large, carries 100+ icbm's, flies at mach 3-5!!! And uses pulsed propulsion technology. (pop pop pop sound and contrails that look like pearl necklace). Because our flimsy 60's house (the cheapest windows ever made) rattles violently to the weakest skyquakes, we have been interested in this for at least 10 years.

BECKY

2012-12-20 05:14 PM

http://www.facebook.com/30thSpaceWing?ref=stream -- Wondering about the noise and shaking from this morning? We have an update from Edwards Air Force Base Public Affairs with the following: "We (Edwards AFB PA) can confirm it was an F-22 flying in the Western Pacific Test Range on an authorized test flight 50 miles west of the Vandenberg coastline. Edwards conducts these types of operations year-round, but today’s atmospheric conditions allowed the boom to be heard and felt along the Central Coast."

YIN YANG

2012-12-20 07:44 PM

Sure am glad I read Noozhawk before Edhat this morning. Thanks for the entertainment! As usual, I just freeze and wait to see if it's a big one. Indeed, nothing but the windows shook. Very strange. There are things here of which we know not, in the spirit of Hamlet's saying.

Roger, are you sure it's the Oreo Cookie and not the Flying Spaghetti Monster? :-)

Happy Solstice, All!

COMMENT 356296

2012-12-21 07:06 AM

We felt it too - over by Oak Park and Cottage Hospital! It felt like the window-rattling experience we have every time a helicopter flies over to land a block away on the hospital roof - but without the very loud apocalyptic noise that generally accompanies them! Those of you who felt those 2 weird events now know why we are always moaning about the hospital helicopters; we can get that kind of interruption up to 8 times a day! SO... What was yesterday's cause? WAS it really an earthquake? Nothing moved!

COMMENT 356380

2012-12-21 10:09 AM

sonic booms used to be common; now they freak folks out.

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